Your thermostat temperature?

18 tends to be ok for us, its not a cold house. When my elderly parents/PILs come over we turn it up a bit more, rarely over 20 but only because it just gets too warm otherwise. If it needed to be it would be!

I don't have heating i can't afford it.
So I got two electric heaters lovely and warm.

18, with the heating turned off in rooms like the spare bedroom. I tried to turn the heating on this week only to find I can’t - hot water is fine but the button to turn on the heating is having no effect whatsoever! Thank goodness I have a gas fire but during the day very chilly. Engineer coming tomorrow.
Im also the type to leave the heating on all day, it only fires up when temp drops. I spend about £45/month on gas (three bed terrace) throughout the year and that includes having the gas fire on almost every night from October through March.

Oh thank goodness! I was beginning to feel the "competitive coldness" with earlier posters!
I feel the cold. However we don't have it on overnight.

Only on MN.

Im old and arthritic and feel the cold so my house is 22 downstairs and about 16 upstairs. Someone rang the ring type doorbell about an hour ago and they dont stand a cats chance in hell of my opening it. I just washed my hair and Im not letting in all the cold air to stand talking to some random with wet hair. Looked like someone selling or collecting.

20 in the day, 16 overnight. Except the conservatory which is 18 if we are using it and off if we aren't.
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21! Cannot bear being cold!

And it does save money on the electric bills for sure

Its not one that heats water, its one that gives out hot air (and air conditioning in summer). Love it though, especially in summer.

Mines like 22 I think. I will not go cold and refuse to 'layer up'. I want the air to be warm in my house and using the heating is how that's done. I do have 2 kids under 10, one who also has sensory issues like me so it's just better for us to have the heat on. Can't cope with cold I am not built for it.

Marriage is always about compromise.

Ours is set to 18.

I assume they meant colder outside and the house is chillier. Not that the thermostat gets colder lol

My house must be very unusual because it doesn't have a thermostat on the wall that you can turn up and down or set to click on when there's a certain temperature outside.

No idea why but that's just the heating system we inherited with the house.

Our is 18 during the day and 16 overnight.

Ours is set to 19 and comes on morning and evening. We have thermostatic valves on each of the radiators as well so we can adjust the rooms individually. That's made a big difference.

19.5 but never have it on overnight. I can't sleep with the heating on.

Am I the only one who doesn’t have a thermostat or thermometer in their home?

I always see threads that say the temperature of the house or heating and I wonder how everyone seems to know.

Sadly we have no extractor fan. Just old fashioned windows or a dehumidifier. I do live in a 100+ year old cottage so I can't complain about the lack oif mod-cons really... I have a working fireplace so I could go light a bucket of cold if I get desperate!! :)

17, genuinely don’t think our boiler would get up to 20

Use the extractor fan if you can. It's a far more efficient in energy usage to pump the humid air out of the room to outside than try to dehumidify the air.

I work from home all day so the heating is set to come on in the moring and evening and the thermostat is set at 18.5oC. However I just had to get up and nudge the heating on for an hour's boost as the house temperature dropped to 17 and I was feeling the chill. I have also now got the damned dehumidifier on to stop the bathroom mould as I can't leave the window open enough without getting chilly!

Ours is set to 16° which is mostly ok. Saving money is our biggest priority at the moment.

I do feel cold sometimes so if I’m doing admin, I put my Oodie and leg warmers on and put a blanket over me. Then the dog snuggles next to me and it’s really cosy. If I’m doing housework or cooking, it’s fine cause the activity warms me up. The heating is off at night and we have a window open and it is COLD but I sleep well in a cold bedroom. I wear my Oodie, then winter duvet over the top and then a blanket. The only bit of me outside the covers is my nose (and yes it gets cold but doesn’t stop me sleeping). I usually wake in the early hours for a wee, by which time I’m toasty and can take the Oodie off.

DH has just lost some income and we just can’t afford high energy bills at the moment.

Have you thought about climate control for the bedroom? The new air con units are hot and cold and controlled by WiFi on an app so could pre heat the bedroom only.

saying that 18 is freezing in our well insulated house, I set to 20

I have two thermostats, one upstairs and one downstairs. Both set at 18 but I often bump them up to 20. They’re not on all day though. My husband definitely doesn’t feel as cold as me but knows his ears will get a rest if I get my way.